Hosts of Mordor by scoopman

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis amass-and-Wraith value deck built around Sauron, the Dark Lord. The plan is to grow a massive Orc Army through amass triggers - Sauron's own "whenever an opponent casts a spell, amass Orcs 1" being the engine - while the Ring tempting you repeatedly grows the nine Nazgul into deathtouch beaters and refuels the hand through Sauron's discard-your-hand, draw-four. Lord of the Nazgul converts every instant and sorcery into a 3/3 Wraith, turning the deck's heavy spell count into a swarm. Victory comes from combat: a huge Army with Assault on Osgiliath double strike, extra combats from Scourge of the Throne, or a Living Death blowout. There is no infinite combo; this is a grind-and-overwhelm midrange deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 6 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surrounded by Orcs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin